The book-banning lawsuit against Barnes & Noble is moving forward in Virginia.

The book-banning lawsuit against Barnes & Noble is moving forward in Virginia.

By Corinne Segal | August 25, 2022

Phong Nguyen on Vietnam Then, Taiwan Today, and China’s Interests Abroad

Phong Nguyen on Vietnam Then, Taiwan Today, and China’s Interests Abroad

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | August 25, 2022

How Big Pharma and Big Tech Collude To Exploit Basic Human Needs

How Big Pharma and Big Tech Collude To Exploit Basic Human Needs

Adrienne Buller and Mathew Lawrence on the Monetization of Everyday Life

By Adrienne Buller and Mathew Lawrence | August 25, 2022

A Texas woman went to the cops about an actual library book.

A Texas woman went to the cops about an actual library book.

By Jonny Diamond | August 24, 2022

How Technology Can Both Improve and Degrade Our Urban Environment

How Technology Can Both Improve and Degrade Our Urban Environment

John Lorinc on the Benefits and Pitfalls of “Smart Cities”

By John Lorinc | August 24, 2022

Aja Monet on Robin D.G. Kelley and the Ongoing Struggle for Black Liberation

Aja Monet on Robin D.G. Kelley and the Ongoing Struggle for Black Liberation

“Sometimes we trip into our past as we endure the present, but freedom is always now.”

By Aja Monet | August 24, 2022

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The Stolen Year: Kids, Covid, and the Catastrophic Cost of the Pandemic

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The Gothic Horror of a Post-Roe America

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Reading Between the Data: Revealing the Hidden Stories of Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the US Census

Reading Between the Data: Revealing the Hidden Stories of Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the US Census

Dan Bouk in Conversation with Andrew Keen

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What Langston Hughes Understood About How Power Relations Shaped US Census Data

What Langston Hughes Understood About How Power Relations Shaped US Census Data

Dan Bouk on “Madam and the Census Man” and the Untold Stories Behind Census Records

By Dan Bouk | August 23, 2022

A Brief Political—and Personal—History of Gay Bathhouses

A Brief Political—and Personal—History of Gay Bathhouses

Rasheed Newson on Sexually Accommodating Spaces as Community Hubs, and the Moral Panics That Destroyed Them

By Rasheed Newson | August 23, 2022

Mike Rothschild on the Ongoing Influence of QAnon and Its Self-Made Mythologies

Mike Rothschild on the Ongoing Influence of QAnon and Its Self-Made Mythologies

“Conspiracy theories will always be popular, because they make you feel like you’re smart, important, and part of a community.”

By Mike Rothschild | August 22, 2022

How the French Revolution and the January 6 American Insurrection Are Bookends in the Struggle for Democracy

How the French Revolution and the January 6 American Insurrection Are Bookends in the Struggle for Democracy

Laura Mason in Conversation with Andrew Keen

By Keen On | August 22, 2022

How an Unlucky Texas Fisherman Stumbled Upon an Environmental Catastrophe

How an Unlucky Texas Fisherman Stumbled Upon an Environmental Catastrophe

Kirk Wallace Johnson on the Dark Side of America’s Gulf Coast

By Kirk Wallace Johnson | August 22, 2022

The End of Bias: How to Create a More Just (and Prosperous) World

The End of Bias: How to Create a More Just (and Prosperous) World

Jessica Nordell in Conversation with Andrew Keen

By Keen On | August 22, 2022

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